Name: Parallel 11 - Inflation
Start: 2008-08-28T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2008-08-28T21:15:00-05:00
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Parallel 11 - Inflation

Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 2:00 PM

Monday, August 25, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
2:00 PM Emergent Cyclic Universes and Tolman's Entropy Problem - Tirthabir Biswas (Penn State University)
Emergent Cyclic Universes and Tolman's Entropy Problem
- Tirthabir Biswas (Penn State University)
2:00 PM - 2:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:20 PM Non-gaussianity from the bispectrum in general multiple field inflation - Shuntaro Mizuno (University of Tokyo)
Non-gaussianity from the bispectrum in general multiple field inflation
- Shuntaro Mizuno (University of Tokyo)
2:20 PM - 2:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:40 PM Nflation: observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum. - Soo A Kim (Kyung Hee University)
Nflation: observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum.
- Soo A Kim (Kyung Hee University)
2:40 PM - 2:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:00 PM Primordial gravitational waves in the anisotropic inflationary universe - Jiro Soda (Kyoto University)
Primordial gravitational waves in the anisotropic inflationary universe
- Jiro Soda (Kyoto University)
3:00 PM - 3:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:20 PM Staggered Multi-Field Inflation - Thorsten Battefeld (Princeton University)
Staggered Multi-Field Inflation
- Thorsten Battefeld (Princeton University)
3:20 PM - 3:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:40 PM Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Outside Lecture Hall
4:00 PM Conservation and evolution of the curvature perturbation - Jinn-Ouk Gong (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Conservation and evolution of the curvature perturbation
- Jinn-Ouk Gong (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
4:00 PM - 4:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:20 PM Vector inflation - Vitaly Vanchurin (University of Munich)
Vector inflation
- Vitaly Vanchurin (University of Munich)
4:20 PM - 4:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:40 PM Reheating of the universe after inflation with f(phi)R gravity - Yuki Watanabe (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Reheating of the universe after inflation with f(phi)R gravity
- Yuki Watanabe (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
4:40 PM - 4:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:00 PM The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating - Ahmet Emir Gumrukcuoglu (University of Minnesota)
The role of SUSY flat directions in reheating
- Ahmet Emir Gumrukcuoglu (University of Minnesota)
5:00 PM - 5:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:20 PM Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Perturbations of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes with K = (+1, -1, 0) - Christoph Schmidt (ETH Zurich)
Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Perturbations of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes with K = (+1, -1, 0)
- Christoph Schmidt (ETH Zurich)
5:20 PM - 5:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:40 PM Stochastic gravitational radiation produced after inflation. - John Giblin (Yale University)
Stochastic gravitational radiation produced after inflation.
- John Giblin (Yale University)
5:40 PM - 5:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
7:00 PM Banquet - Lawrence Krauss, Speaker
Banquet - Lawrence Krauss, Speaker
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Room: Community Terrace